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This webpage is dedicated to my paternal line, the Richardsons. I dove into their mostly forgotten and unrecorded history with abandon, and after fifteen years of digging, dusting and driving around obscure cemeteries in 3 states, I have found enough pieces of the puzzle to begin a reconstruction of the Richardson journey. This journey, however, is intricately woven into the tapestries of other families history, whose puzzle pieces are an essential part of the whole story.
Truth be told, I've been smitten by the genealogy bug! For me, the missing pieces of the puzzle, however remotely related they may be, will be relevant somehow. The solution to the next mystery is always just around the corner, another yet long forgotten photograph to be discovered in an attic hatbox - somewhere?, another undiscovered cousin, out there? Many mysteries remain! Do you have an attic? Get excited about your family history and start digging. I will share all I have. Perhaps you have the missing puzzle piece. 
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| Photo Albums |
Land Records | Wills | Obituaries | Newspaper Tidbits |
| Grandparents |
| Smith Wade Richardson & Alice Thompson |
| Raymond Lamont Lattin & Hazel Inez Cubbage |
| Great Grandparents |
| Eugene Wiley Richardson &Susannah Radcliffe Wade |
| Jesse Elmer Thompson & Eva Fair |
| Ralph A. Lattin & Goldie Agnes Whitley |
| Jacob Elijah Cubage & Nobie Benson | Great Great Grandparents |
| Theopolis W. Richardson & Mary Ellen Wiley | Elza Lazier Wade & Matilda Radcliffe | William Flick Thompson & Nancy Ellen Fulton | George W. Fair & Elizabeth Emerick | Hall Gilbert Lattin & Elizabeth J. Kelley | John Montgomery Whitley & Anna Theresa Rooney | William Cubage & Mary Benton | Isaac Allen Benson & Mary Malinda Briant Cox | Great Great Great Grandparents | Joseph A. Richardson & Sarah J. Williams | Joshua C. Wiley & Mary Ellen Kettlewell |
George W.Richardson
George Richardson left Scotland in the summer of 1823 with a group of Scottish merchants, farmers and artisans to inspect the 2761 acres of a land purchased from Ohio Company , through Nahum Ward. Not only did these prospective immigrants commit their financial resources to this venture, but also the lives of their wives and children, who joined them the following spring. A town named Sterling, on the Ohio River, in Meigs County, Ohio, was born.
George Richardson wrote very detailed letters back to the Glasgow company in Scotland. George exuded excitement over the richness of the Ohio lands, the prospective business opportunities on a busy Ohio river, and a vivid account of what building a new town was like.
Unfortunately, calamities abounded for this brave of Scottish pioneers, and after suffering financial woes, death, and disease the fledgling group soon scattered. George Richardson sold his merchandise in 1828 and moved his family across the river to Wheeling, West Virginia. The business prospects were better, and the family settled into an active mercantile life and the steamboat industry. George Richardson left us a sizeable footprint in recorded history. We have his 1826 naturalizaton declaration, in the Ohio court records,
numerous land records from Meigs County, Ohio, and Mason and Ohio County, West Virginia.
and best of all, snippets in the history books.
From all these records we get a snapshot of an adventurous, articulate and capable man.
Man could be Joseph Richardson, or David Skinner in Sardis, Ohio (n.d.)
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Links To Other Sites Meigs County, Ohio List Wheeling Area Genealogical Society (WAGS) Monroe County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society West Virginia Civil War Pages |